TextNow® programme shows outstanding results in schools

Posted 18.06.2010

Unitas’s motivational reading programme, TextNow®, was piloted in schools and colleges in 2010 and the results were very positive.

At the Dunston Youth Achievement Foundation Lane College in Derbyshire, coordinators commented on ‘how well our students have responded to the scheme and what a huge difference it has made so far with some of the participants’:

“Your mentors have been very professional and extremely accommodating in terms of the chaotic attendance of our students. Their enthusiasm for the project has had a great impact on both the students they work with and their peers; positive word is spreading! Not only are we now able to link the TextNow diaries with our own awards, but the improvement in literary confidence has been far and above what could have been achieved with these students over such a short period within their usual group settings. We would all like to express our thanks for what the scheme has achieved to date.”

In Wales, results were also extremely positive and the programme even attracted local media attention! At Flint High School in Flintshire, older students became coaches to the younger students as part of their Personal and Social Education Community Participation for the Welsh Baccalaureate. The Flintshire Chronicle visited the school to learn about TextNow and photograph the students.

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At Rhymney College, Gwent, a member of staff said, “One of our most challenging and challenged learners has seen a marked change. Last Thursday, the young man sat all day and read a whole book. He is thrilled with his new-found skill. This is the first time this young man has sat and focused on anything for an extended period of time. Getting him to read has been a way of managing his behaviour. He now reads signs in the building, he reads in the classroom and is engaged with the world around him. TextNow has been a breath of fresh air.”

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